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spectre wrote:
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Occasionally, some cds do include liner notes, but again, it's just laziness.
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Some cd's include liner notes?
I have over 1100 of the damn things and I can count on one hand the number that don't have liner notes of some kind. In fact the ones that don't have any liner notes are from older albums that have been re-released on CD. Unless you're talking some ultra-low budget DIY "punk/emo/indie band that is self releasing the album, every album these days has liner notes.
roachboy wrote:
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the sound is much better on vinyl, CD is highly compressed--you hear it in the relative one-dimensional character of the low end and the lack of overall warmth.
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If you like analog tape hiss and pops and scratches from the dust on the record, then sure it sounds better then CD's.
And we seem to have yet another believer in the bullshit myth about records being "warmer" then CD's.
That isn't due to the album being pressed on vinyl, it's due to the recording being done using analog instead of digital.
And the sound on CD's isn't compressed all that much, not enough for the average music listener to hear. In fact, there is a much greater chance of having a high end record player play an album too slow or too fast then for a CD to have an awful sound balance.
As for not being able to hear the low end on CD, but being bale to do so on vinyl, please. It is the exact other way around. try listening to the last 1:30 of The Beatles
A Day In The Life on vinyl and then on CD, or better yet listen to
Strawberry Fields Forever first on vinyl, then on CD. The difference in sound quality is astonishing; the vinyl is quite muddied and tons of stuff gets lost in the mix, while on CD all of the individual instruments can be singled out.
And I think that CD booklets these days are pretty damn good, now that people have figured out how they can use the space provided.